Muriel Rukeyser Quotes
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
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I think being bi-continental is something I want to continue. Kuala Lumpur is my home, but L.A. is where I've been able to make the music that I want.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
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Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.
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For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.
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My lifetime listens to yours.
